Harvey Whitehouse

Insightful and breathtaking . . . Explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures. - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Why are humans everywhere prone to believe in ghosts? How might our tendency to imitate one another be contributing to the climate catastrophe? And does our deep evolutionary past impel us to vote for strongmen? In 1987, Harvey...

Insightful and breathtaking . . . Explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures. — Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens How our evolved psychology has shaped the past, present and future of humanity. Each of us is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases, forged through countless millennia of natural and cultural selection, which shape every...